While the images are graphic, they are of important value to the world as this is what happens when radiation at high levels are released into the environment. Every one of those children had parents. Sad, we should not be afraid to look and remember. We must stop this from happening to others.
@JuliusIsMe Well, you must understand that the Ukraine is not a wealthy country. The Ukraine got it's independence in 1991, it was a brand new country, broke, and dealing with a crisis they inherited from the USSR. To buy things you must have money. Hence the Ukraine relying on foreign help. The entire country is suffering, their lifespans are shortening, their health is in shambles, their economy is drained. Imagine living 20 years less than your parents? That's their reality.
@WallStwizkid Were you under a rock in 2011? WTF do you think we are going to start seeing coming out of the region of Japan that was affected post-tsunami? It has already happened again!
@brookengrace Japan won't be nearly as bad. The didn't even build containment for the Chernobyl core. There was functionally nothing blocking the fissile from the outside world. Japan's reactor had containment, and the radiation lost was significantly less. It's still bad, but it's several orders of magnitude less than Chernobyl bad.
I have never commented on ANY YouTube videos because of all the bullshit negativity that gets posted, but thank God for those volunteers offering their time and services to those in need!!! The world could definitely benefit from more people showing such generous acts of selflessness.
@colton8r The sad thing is that there goig to set up some tourism in Pripyat and the Chernobyl plant. What a mockery of the disaster that still effects people more than 25 years later
@wasabibubble Umm...doubtful. They were, however, receiving lethal doses of X-ray radiation without knowing it. They were probably dead within 2 or 3 days.
Gut wrenching. A well-done reality check for Mankind. Your fact that says Plutonium 239 (the most toxic stuff known to man) has a half life of 24,110 + years that would mean that in the year 26,221 it would be only half gone. omG! That is 5-digits. ...here it is 4-Digit ...the year 2,011. ...Not so safe stuff is Uranium.
I've seen many comments of "Where is God? Where was he?" well I'm not speaking for him against him or to any other entitiy that is of higher power... But God was and will be distracted at our worst times
Using dangerous lethal radiation to boil water and create steam to turn a turbine to make electricity. Sounds like something from the stone age. Nikola Tesla invented a free energy machine 100 years ago.
@zkxb: Where are the blueprints? Like it or not, most likely the nuclear energy is what we will use in near future, perhaps TWR. Coal or petrol will be soon either depleted or impossible to use because the nature won't take any more pollution. And with 7 billions inhabitants and high dependency on energy we will have no alternative. Mankind puts little money into research of alternatives, we have to spend them on weapons.
this is exactly why i am premed graduating next year and going to medical school. i REALLY want to help victims of all disasters, those less fortunate and make shelters for men, women and children to better themselves and to get an education. i never want kids in this world because it is just so evil! i knew from a very young age this was my calling and im so glad soo i will be able to help those people for free
what pisses me off is how easy it would be for the people of this world, and the only thing stopping it is money, yet they teach us in school and in the religions we hold so dear that life is priceless!
@Listen4LedZeppelin Opened your eyes up? If you ask me, what happened at Chernobyl is because of communism and it's (forgive the term) stupid ideas and politics...
@MultiSheepsheep Thank you! I was about to go off on a tirade on some of these IDIOTS posting on here about this... There's a reason USSR doesn't exist anymore... because IT DOESN'T WORK! And now these same mush brained IDIOTS want to bring communism here to the USA. How stupid can these people be?
Call me cruel, but would it not be more humane to terminate these children's lives early on? I do not see how their pain, torment, etc. is a "quality life", even with the good care they get. We have no idea what pain and horrors they experience inside. I think non-euthanization in many of these cases is the real cruelty.
@thethirdcraft I think that's up to the kids themselves. If they want to live, why would you stop them? It's their choice, not someone else's. I don't imagine any person telling these kids they should stop living because life is too hard for them and taking care of them is too hard and expensive.
Tell the retarded parents to stop having babies. The government should have imposed a law after they saw the first few babies come out deformed. WTF is wrong with them?
ALL NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS SHOULD BE CLOSED DOWN NOW AND NO MORE BUILT. THESE PICS SHOULD BE SHOWN ON MAINSTREAM TV. TO WAKE UP THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SLEEPING IN IGNORANCE.MAY GOD BLESS ALL THOSE SUFFERING FROM RADIATION SICKNESSES. ITS A GREAT PITY WE ARE BEING CONTROLED BY IDIOTS WHO ALLOW THIS HORROR. THERE ARE OTHER AND SAFE ENERGY SOURCES. SO NO TO NUC POWER NOW. AUM SHANTI.
OMG... I AM CRYING.! IT IS JUST SOO SAD. I CAN NOT IMAGINE THE FEEELINGS OF PARENTS THAT FEELING OF HELPLESSNESS. WISHING AND PRAYING FOR...... MY HEART IS BROKEN FOR THE PEOPLE IN THAT COUNTRY.
What I heard is that money is worthless while life was priceless. Hard to watch but the cowards in government need to see what they are responsible for.
@colton8r You can visit Chernobyl, however, you cannot get close to the site where the destruction occured as the radiation is still much to dangerous. Many documentary teams and reporters continue to film its progress :3
I wish every doctor wanted to help, and acted on those feelings, instead of seeking money. I know there are so many doctors who go into medicine to help people, but in the United States how many people are refused life saving services because of an inability to pay?
@glassgoblin77 Ya I think for the person behind the camera to specify that they are American is sort of arrogant and misguided. American doctors would not help their own people who cannot afford surgery and I there are equally qualified surgeons from around the world who could have done this so the fact that they are American is pointless.
@Phonoise They were simply commenting they were American *Volunteers*, from the sound of things from the one nurse it seems we were the only ones who came to help. And as you said there are qualified surgeons from around the world... well I didn't see any trying to help.
Novick said "Ukranians believe" Chernobyl caused the perforated septa (holes between ventricles) in these kids' hearts (a common defect worldwide). I've not heard of that being a result of radiation? Infant mortality 300% higher in a very poor country? That's typical - needs no Chernobyl to explain. This video has made me skeptical. Yes, medical care is badly needed in Belarus and all other impoverished areas, but this video makes it sound like Chernobyl caused their need rather than poverty.
Nuclear energy is the least expensive and most powerful source of energy, yet its sideeffects are out of this world. Not worth it at all. Nukes, Plants, this type of energy needs to be globally recognized as dangerous.
I wasn't even alive during this, and still, when I watch these videos, it makes me feel horrified that people have had, and still have to go through this. I teared up when the little boy in this video said that he wanted to be a doctor. I hope where ever he is today, he is doing great.
chernobyl is past.theres nothing can do now..but look this video look what steel hapen somewhere in the world......whatch this video on you tube ...^ Topilnica Good Veles Kaput video #1^...in Veles.Macedonia this silent kiler factory is working in period of 40 years..from 1970 to 2005...there is so much muatations like in chernobyl and in 2012 this fabric is going to be restarted..who is going to help them now...Macedonia is N1 in corution..this is so sad.....but true:(
What is this song called? I have been looking for this song for EVER I was so excited to hear it on your video. such chilling footage I hope the children of Chernobyl live a long and happy life
At the 2:45 mark the women in the blue sweaters are part of the Sunflowers Chernobyl Appeal Children's Charity from Ireland. chernobylchildren(dot)ie
They help orphanages like the one the boy was in, build schools and day cares for children with special needs in the Ukraine. Like the Babyheart(dot)org foundation this is another one that does incredible things for these children who otherwise would have nothing. Make a donation to either, both are worthy causes.
what happened at Chernobyl was mistake made by own Ukrainian Nuclear workers at the time which affected everything. Simple if you dont do checks and dont bits and pieces inside the power plant thats what happens
@driftkingpro123 it was not the workers fault. there was no means of controlling the reaction and the heat within the reactor increased until its roof was blown off. the reactor could not shut down due to loss of coolant after a rupture in the reactor, the workers tried their best but couldn't do anything. even the control rods where useless due to their structure .... and an endless list of flaws in the technology.
unless you understand the reality, it would be best to hold your tongue.
THIS SHIT IS NOTHING SHORT OF, HORRIFFIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY DO PEOPLE WANT O FUCK AROUND WITH SHIT LIKE THIS THAT CAN DESTROY PEOPLES LIVES, MAINLY CHILDREN, SEEING THESE KIDS LIKE THIS HURTS ME TO MY SOUL AND PISSES ME OFF AT THE PEOPLE THAT CAUSED THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!! GOD BLESS THE LITTLE CHILDREN AND ANYONE ELSE AFFECTED
Omfg I shouldnt watch this...Of course I knew about Chernobyl,but when I saw these images and poor children,its a terrible fail of a human we cant imagine.
I am lil bit of dumnb but i dont know much about this whole thing and i wasn't even born when this happened but i am so churious, after the accident, how got those innocent kids get so bad, if they werent even there?;s like did they were on the treets and get something on them...but what with the babys...sorry for me being stupid...
@Cindezorr My guess would be damage to their parents DNA.IT's terrible for sure and probably some of these children were in the womb when this all happened but why oh why would these women(and the men) decide to have children after being exposed like they were.I can't imagine that they didn't know the risks of what they might produce.
Stupid humans... Playing around with things we barely understand.. We're still doing it now, spraying aluminium particles and barium salts into the atmosphere in an attempt to control the weather and god knows what else. The potential for the destruction of life could dwarf anything we've ever seen, including Chernobyl.. Don't believe me? Look up What in the World Are They Spraying..
i saw comments about people felt so bad about what happened to these kids and that the people who did this will pay or that they hope they never see God..but what happened was a total accident, im not saying it couldnt have been prevented but it WAS an accident. it had to do with confusion about the reactors and the amount of water and steam they were puting into the machine
I have not slept for three days from this video. these horrible images continuously flash in my mind. how could someone watch seven minute of these poor humans. I hope they are in peace. also I only could stand 2 images before I have to close my browser.
"Given the low radiation doses received by most people exposed to the Chernobyl accident, no effects on fertility, numbers of stillbirths, adverse pregnancy outcomes or delivery complications have been demonstrated nor are there expected to be any. A modest but steady increase in reported congenital malformations in both contaminated and uncontaminated areas of Belarus appears related to improved reporting and not to radiation exposure."
Im studying medicine... I watched this video... i got the chills at 2:25... May all of these innocent kids find peace... And to all of the destroyers of the world (All nations with no exceptions) I hope you will never see God before you for all of this that you have done... May all of the souls that have died in this tragedy Rest in Peace and the people still suffering be strong...
@billybob7217 there is to be honest..but here on earth we have a freedom of choice..did god build the reactor? or did some human been decide to build the reactor? our souls need to be with god..and these kids are all with god..in the after life they will sitting right by his side trying to help us here on earth make choices for the greater good. sorry u dont beleive, be good to yourself and others and one day you will meet him.
@seshcrewproductions yep thats why that area is uninhabitable for 24k years and thousands of children within sevral hundred miles are still being born with defects of the radiation that still lingers
@ZinjeiSoDope Yes, they are trying to build a 'sarcophagus' of sorts to build over the open reactor, a place like that never looses its radioactivity. That is what they are going to try to do to the Fukushima reactors in Japan.
@ZinjeiSoDope Absolutely, positively!!! At the end of the video, they say that the plutonium has a half-life of over 24000 years, so we have 23,970 years before it is somewhat safe to live in the affected areas.... Makes ya wonder why they build these reactors huh? .... and what about the still highly radioactive "spent" rods that they bury???? It's just a bad deal for everyone but the electric companies.....
when the little boy said that he wants to be a doctor , my tears just went down instantly... Human will is indeed a force to be recogned with... Even in this condition that boy has the right to dream and fight for something better It's always the same.... Our children suffer the aftermath of our own fuck ups... What did these children do to diserve such fate... Who are we to simply destroy their dreams.... My God how arrogant we are...
It's videos like this that show us that there is always someone who has it worse than you. That kid who says he has to be carried to school still manages to generate a smile. I've seen alot of videos showing the bad side and the after effects of this disaster, but does anyone know what their government is doing about it, or has done about it in the past?
@movieguy1985 The Ukrainian Government is keeping Pripyat off limits, though some people still live there, as they are unwilling to leave their original home. The steel sarcophagus that is around Reactor 4 is decaying and the government is trying to raise enough money to build a secondary one over the first one.
Nuclear reactors aren't that bad guys the soviet Union likes to be quiet about stuff so they didnt tell anyone how dangerous or evacuate them. they turned off the cooling system and cranked up the speed on the reactors so get a little bit of an eduacation before you say nuclear energy is horrible and stupid
@KittyLaBamBam Yes, it's horrible...but also hopeful. Do something about it: make a donation to the ICHF (founded by Dr. William Novick, the dr at the end who meets the grateful parents).
wow! so the town next to that Chernobyl Nuclear plant is now abandoned because of all the radiation? and what are those huge bulges on the children's backs in the very beginning of this video?
Welcome to Communism and Socialized Medicine (Obamacare). Notice that it was the AMERICAN doctors who helped these poor children. Who will help when OUR doctors don't earn enough, or are advanced enough, to help? Wake up, America.
Is Japan going thru this with out the media hype? Studies on the fallout and only limited to a land locked area..what happens when its blown for miles and miles?
Heartbreaking and mind shaking to the core ! I recall Chernobyl well, a neighbor of ours who was pregnant down the street from us expected twins and sadly they died as they were born deformed... and we were far away respectively from where this happened and in a different country. Just horrific, the tragedy, the suffering. Mutated DNA that will be inherited down the generations, chromosomal damage.... human suffering....Japan's effects will be the same if not worse worldwide. Horrible !
Let me put something into perspective. They estimate about 100,000 people died from cancer relating to Chernobyl across the world. In the US ALONE, between 1995 and 2005 it has been estimated that 250,000 people died from cancers and other ailments related to coal fired power plants. This is only in the US. I am not giving nuclear power a blank check. I am only pointing out the irrational and misplaced fears. I am NOT excusing centralized power industry.
@slickstrings its not 30 times worse. In fact, Its not as bad. However, its potential to become more disastrous than chernobyl is still present, as the cores are still hot and are threatening a meltdown.
If all goes well, those reactors will cease production and the area will be fenced off until about 40 years later, when most of the radioactive stuff decays to less harmful stuff.
And now it's just beginning in the U.S. because of Fukushima. And no one here is talking about it. Babies being born in the states are dying at a 50% increase. And we haven't seen anything yet. God or no God or be your own God. SOMEONE HAS TO STOP NUCLEAR POWER. Chernobyl is leaking and the plants in the U.S. are in need of repair real bad. They are leaking too.
@laswan5 Yes! Inspection of these plants only shows they go "chernobyl after around 30 years! Then, they are surrounded with water...and the workers just Back Away...
This is funny : A preliminary report by the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency has stated that the response to the Fukushima nuclear incident was "exemplary" and that nobody has been harmed by radiation exposure resulting from it.
The report was drafted by an IAEA fact-finding team which has just completed a visit to Japan. The team was led by Mike Weightman, the UK Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations – Britain's top nuclear regulator.
and your welcome i hope we can do more to help you
1dogeez 1 week ago
gmod!!!
VCAIPS 1 week ago
Amazing doctor!!! Respect for that man!!
carmentje009 2 weeks ago
Wow! This happened when I was just a baby! I was only two weeks old when this happened!
digigirl986 3 weeks ago
"Thanks for the American people" now that's something you dont hear much.
soocl0se 1 month ago 29
the price of greed
donttalkshizzle 1 month ago
What happened? A core meltdown explosion, or Ukraine ducking up the place with nukes?
Shycreator 1 month ago
give that doctor a fkin medal
FoxOnTheRoxxx 1 month ago 12
While the images are graphic, they are of important value to the world as this is what happens when radiation at high levels are released into the environment. Every one of those children had parents. Sad, we should not be afraid to look and remember. We must stop this from happening to others.
cbemerine 1 month ago 2
Meanwhile on the Middle East people buy cars made of solid gold!
gcmarcal 1 month ago 3
God bless america for giving a shit about others when no one cares
texbud23 1 month ago 4
why is anyone still living here?
iTzBRYANT113 1 month ago
I fucking cried how governments could be so fucking cruel and not give a shit about their own people.
JuliusIsMe 1 month ago 7
@JuliusIsMe Well, you must understand that the Ukraine is not a wealthy country. The Ukraine got it's independence in 1991, it was a brand new country, broke, and dealing with a crisis they inherited from the USSR. To buy things you must have money. Hence the Ukraine relying on foreign help. The entire country is suffering, their lifespans are shortening, their health is in shambles, their economy is drained. Imagine living 20 years less than your parents? That's their reality.
GenevievesVindicated 3 weeks ago 2
Shocking to me how a single element could cause so much pain and suffering :(
dukedrew81 1 month ago
It's awful seeing children in this condition. Let's hope this never happens again.
WallStwizkid 1 month ago
@WallStwizkid Were you under a rock in 2011? WTF do you think we are going to start seeing coming out of the region of Japan that was affected post-tsunami? It has already happened again!
brookengrace 1 month ago 2
@brookengrace Japan won't be nearly as bad. The didn't even build containment for the Chernobyl core. There was functionally nothing blocking the fissile from the outside world. Japan's reactor had containment, and the radiation lost was significantly less. It's still bad, but it's several orders of magnitude less than Chernobyl bad.
MyChemicalBromance 2 weeks ago
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joeshings 1 month ago
Sup with the chopper? Communism is a curse.
freezingsun8 2 months ago
24,110 years ... so sad
Espadoable 2 months ago
this is one of the few things that really stirs me emotionally (Deformed/severley injured) people.
skillzdatkillz900 2 months ago
What happend to the chopper?
MultiMikko1234 2 months ago
@MultiMikko1234 It clipped an overhead crane.
HOLadd3 2 months ago 12
I have never commented on ANY YouTube videos because of all the bullshit negativity that gets posted, but thank God for those volunteers offering their time and services to those in need!!! The world could definitely benefit from more people showing such generous acts of selflessness.
94deranged 2 months ago 2
R.I.P helicopter crew
DJxHAMST3R 2 months ago
Is that the music from Saw Movie ?
R33skylineR33 2 months ago
@R33skylineR33 it's called requiem of a dream
doctortwyla 2 months ago
@colton8r The sad thing is that there goig to set up some tourism in Pripyat and the Chernobyl plant. What a mockery of the disaster that still effects people more than 25 years later
seth5220 2 months ago
How long is just the half-life of Caesium?
seth5220 2 months ago
@seth5220 30 years
TheMaverickSpawn 2 months ago
@seth5220 30.17 years
NASCAR48Fan1 1 month ago
1:13 WTF pilot..
dani10221022 2 months ago
@dani10221022 That was caused by the clouds of radiation, the helicopters had no idea when they flew in, so many of them died.
k88098 2 months ago
** AFFECTED
wreckem881 2 months ago
this is Ukraine,,, not Russia.. cut of the russophobia already.
caibarien71 2 months ago
only 24,085 years remaining for Pu 239 to crumble
yoco93cro 2 months ago
the song is requiem for a dream. excellent choice!
mikechou2 2 months ago
@mikechou2 yeah, so true, just wanted to say that :)
SpeakerSett 2 months ago
When Does Russians Yelled "Go Closer" on chopper they were KGB Agents
wasabibubble 2 months ago
@wasabibubble Umm...doubtful. They were, however, receiving lethal doses of X-ray radiation without knowing it. They were probably dead within 2 or 3 days.
HOLadd3 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos 16
Gut wrenching. A well-done reality check for Mankind. Your fact that says Plutonium 239 (the most toxic stuff known to man) has a half life of 24,110 + years that would mean that in the year 26,221 it would be only half gone. omG! That is 5-digits. ...here it is 4-Digit ...the year 2,011. ...Not so safe stuff is Uranium.
1959bts 2 months ago
at 1:02 were they speaking russian?
robloxpwnmaster3 2 months ago
Those are surgeons... many many times better than doctors.
charukrsnadasa 2 months ago
So easy to praise god when good things happen and blame him when bad things ocure.
My question is what does god have to do with the Cernobyl disaster?
When we cant blame ower self we blame god , good for us, wake the fuuck up!!!
Razvan220 2 months ago
I've seen many comments of "Where is God? Where was he?" well I'm not speaking for him against him or to any other entitiy that is of higher power... But God was and will be distracted at our worst times
billylang2602 2 months ago
I have fourteen years and i'm viewing this, it's really sad
ECSMr 2 months ago
so sad.... <:( I really want to become a doctor but Im lacking of determination......I hate myself.....
TUB3CLIPS 2 months ago
Using dangerous lethal radiation to boil water and create steam to turn a turbine to make electricity. Sounds like something from the stone age. Nikola Tesla invented a free energy machine 100 years ago.
zkxb 2 months ago
@zkxb: Where are the blueprints? Like it or not, most likely the nuclear energy is what we will use in near future, perhaps TWR. Coal or petrol will be soon either depleted or impossible to use because the nature won't take any more pollution. And with 7 billions inhabitants and high dependency on energy we will have no alternative. Mankind puts little money into research of alternatives, we have to spend them on weapons.
jardabc 2 months ago
@zkxb You 're right but the Elites of this planet won't let us....
SoYouThinkYouCanLive 2 months ago
this is exactly why i am premed graduating next year and going to medical school. i REALLY want to help victims of all disasters, those less fortunate and make shelters for men, women and children to better themselves and to get an education. i never want kids in this world because it is just so evil! i knew from a very young age this was my calling and im so glad soo i will be able to help those people for free
donnad23 2 months ago 61
@donnad23 Best of luck in your future endeavors. Your cause is to be respected.
sportstuber11 2 months ago
@donnad23 Good luck!
Momosauur 2 months ago
Oxana or however u spell it is beautiful
randomazn420 2 months ago
Poor kids :(
randomazn420 2 months ago
what pisses me off is how easy it would be for the people of this world, and the only thing stopping it is money, yet they teach us in school and in the religions we hold so dear that life is priceless!
StumpyHead79 3 months ago
Do I dislike this video because it's about such great sadness?
Or like it, because it's educational and actually opened my eyes up?
Listen4LedZeppelin 3 months ago
@Listen4LedZeppelin Opened your eyes up? If you ask me, what happened at Chernobyl is because of communism and it's (forgive the term) stupid ideas and politics...
MultiSheepsheep 2 months ago
@MultiSheepsheep Thank you! I was about to go off on a tirade on some of these IDIOTS posting on here about this... There's a reason USSR doesn't exist anymore... because IT DOESN'T WORK! And now these same mush brained IDIOTS want to bring communism here to the USA. How stupid can these people be?
kleetus92 2 months ago
@kleetus92 there would be a war if that were to ever happen.
bigkest666 2 months ago
this should be shown to japanese because they will habe this in the future and they are building more nuke stations
ukusapillage 3 months ago
Call me cruel, but would it not be more humane to terminate these children's lives early on? I do not see how their pain, torment, etc. is a "quality life", even with the good care they get. We have no idea what pain and horrors they experience inside. I think non-euthanization in many of these cases is the real cruelty.
thethirdcraft 3 months ago
@thethirdcraft I think that's up to the kids themselves. If they want to live, why would you stop them? It's their choice, not someone else's. I don't imagine any person telling these kids they should stop living because life is too hard for them and taking care of them is too hard and expensive.
dchichan24 2 months ago
Tell the retarded parents to stop having babies. The government should have imposed a law after they saw the first few babies come out deformed. WTF is wrong with them?
liquidsnake1959 3 months ago
ALL NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS SHOULD BE CLOSED DOWN NOW AND NO MORE BUILT. THESE PICS SHOULD BE SHOWN ON MAINSTREAM TV. TO WAKE UP THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SLEEPING IN IGNORANCE.MAY GOD BLESS ALL THOSE SUFFERING FROM RADIATION SICKNESSES. ITS A GREAT PITY WE ARE BEING CONTROLED BY IDIOTS WHO ALLOW THIS HORROR. THERE ARE OTHER AND SAFE ENERGY SOURCES. SO NO TO NUC POWER NOW. AUM SHANTI.
cosmicjohn09 3 months ago
OMG... I AM CRYING.! IT IS JUST SOO SAD. I CAN NOT IMAGINE THE FEEELINGS OF PARENTS THAT FEELING OF HELPLESSNESS. WISHING AND PRAYING FOR...... MY HEART IS BROKEN FOR THE PEOPLE IN THAT COUNTRY.
FROM VANCOUVER CANADA, GOD BLESS.
jjleah 3 months ago
What I heard is that money is worthless while life was priceless. Hard to watch but the cowards in government need to see what they are responsible for.
usmcoth 3 months ago
God Bless those people
TheBananeman 3 months ago
If it is illegal to LIVE in chernobyl, is it possible for one to visit it?
colton8r 3 months ago
@colton8r You can visit Chernobyl, however, you cannot get close to the site where the destruction occured as the radiation is still much to dangerous. Many documentary teams and reporters continue to film its progress :3
TomatoSoupxD 3 months ago
SHIT!...Thanks Radiation!! For Screwing The World!
daddyjankie 3 months ago
So Sad... :( may god bless their poor souls
coolcatevan9 3 months ago
I wish every doctor wanted to help, and acted on those feelings, instead of seeking money. I know there are so many doctors who go into medicine to help people, but in the United States how many people are refused life saving services because of an inability to pay?
glassgoblin77 3 months ago 2
@glassgoblin77 Ya I think for the person behind the camera to specify that they are American is sort of arrogant and misguided. American doctors would not help their own people who cannot afford surgery and I there are equally qualified surgeons from around the world who could have done this so the fact that they are American is pointless.
Phonoise 3 months ago
@Phonoise They were simply commenting they were American *Volunteers*, from the sound of things from the one nurse it seems we were the only ones who came to help. And as you said there are qualified surgeons from around the world... well I didn't see any trying to help.
tru2nrtt777 3 months ago
so sad :'(
giorgos132ify 3 months ago
wow..be strong kids, your suffering is only temporary. Your life and soul are eternal..may the god's be with you!!
carademalo 3 months ago
so sad, if i could have, i would have cut my hand off just keep them alive, and out of that horrible pain! ='(
splash602 3 months ago
Novick said "Ukranians believe" Chernobyl caused the perforated septa (holes between ventricles) in these kids' hearts (a common defect worldwide). I've not heard of that being a result of radiation? Infant mortality 300% higher in a very poor country? That's typical - needs no Chernobyl to explain. This video has made me skeptical. Yes, medical care is badly needed in Belarus and all other impoverished areas, but this video makes it sound like Chernobyl caused their need rather than poverty.
dcs002 3 months ago
Nuclear energy is the least expensive and most powerful source of energy, yet its sideeffects are out of this world. Not worth it at all. Nukes, Plants, this type of energy needs to be globally recognized as dangerous.
TheUAOfficalPage 3 months ago
@TheUAOfficalPage and china syndrome, hell that scares me
GingaJamiesBMX 3 months ago
I consider myself a pretty hard-c*nt, but this touched my heart.
f1471in3r 3 months ago
I wasn't even alive during this, and still, when I watch these videos, it makes me feel horrified that people have had, and still have to go through this. I teared up when the little boy in this video said that he wanted to be a doctor. I hope where ever he is today, he is doing great.
KatiTesamaru 3 months ago
chernobyl is past.theres nothing can do now..but look this video look what steel hapen somewhere in the world......whatch this video on you tube ...^ Topilnica Good Veles Kaput video #1^...in Veles.Macedonia this silent kiler factory is working in period of 40 years..from 1970 to 2005...there is so much muatations like in chernobyl and in 2012 this fabric is going to be restarted..who is going to help them now...Macedonia is N1 in corution..this is so sad.....but true:(
zajak1tale 3 months ago
epic song. sad video
MinecraftOutlaw 3 months ago
They didn't even deserve it. It's not fair.
MyStuns 3 months ago
omg... A half life of 24k??
kyndralae 3 months ago
Half-Life 2, really?
EvilPanda1988 4 months ago 2
What is this song called? I have been looking for this song for EVER I was so excited to hear it on your video. such chilling footage I hope the children of Chernobyl live a long and happy life
ArabianImages 4 months ago
What's the title of the song?
ralphinflames 4 months ago
@ralphinflames Requiem for a dream soundtrack
Pjotrr84 3 months ago
imagine the effects of a fault in a nuclear power plant can do,it just makes you sad
scobalula 4 months ago
so sad poor people they dont deserve wat there going thru
lcarlosist 4 months ago
I'm not CRYING for these kids, but it is really sad. Some people overreact a bit.
jjabroni56 4 months ago
At the 2:45 mark the women in the blue sweaters are part of the Sunflowers Chernobyl Appeal Children's Charity from Ireland. chernobylchildren(dot)ie
They help orphanages like the one the boy was in, build schools and day cares for children with special needs in the Ukraine. Like the Babyheart(dot)org foundation this is another one that does incredible things for these children who otherwise would have nothing. Make a donation to either, both are worthy causes.
kwakman99 4 months ago
1:57 is just fucking scary
filmoreization 4 months ago
what happened at Chernobyl was mistake made by own Ukrainian Nuclear workers at the time which affected everything. Simple if you dont do checks and dont bits and pieces inside the power plant thats what happens
driftkingpro123 4 months ago
@driftkingpro123 it was not the workers fault. there was no means of controlling the reaction and the heat within the reactor increased until its roof was blown off. the reactor could not shut down due to loss of coolant after a rupture in the reactor, the workers tried their best but couldn't do anything. even the control rods where useless due to their structure .... and an endless list of flaws in the technology.
unless you understand the reality, it would be best to hold your tongue.
u9p87 3 months ago
i blame the Chernobyl disaster on the 12 heartless bastards who disliked this video :/
Poqrach 4 months ago 2
Anything radioactive terrifies me to no end. This didnt help. This is so horrible! DD;
TheCutieNYA432 4 months ago
The mother crying while her daughter was in surgery and then kissing the doctor's hand - wow... The emotion... No words to describe....
bubblybabs 4 months ago 4
omg i cried watching this i feel so bad omg omg i feel so bad for those kids
rockfan2345 4 months ago
THIS SHIT IS NOTHING SHORT OF, HORRIFFIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY DO PEOPLE WANT O FUCK AROUND WITH SHIT LIKE THIS THAT CAN DESTROY PEOPLES LIVES, MAINLY CHILDREN, SEEING THESE KIDS LIKE THIS HURTS ME TO MY SOUL AND PISSES ME OFF AT THE PEOPLE THAT CAUSED THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!! GOD BLESS THE LITTLE CHILDREN AND ANYONE ELSE AFFECTED
tomcat624u 4 months ago
The Chernobyl Heart documentary is one of the most upsetting things ive ever seen, especially inside the orphanage.
"The destroyer of worlds" Oppenhiemer never a truer word spoken.
tenchgirl 4 months ago
Doctors. Remind me occasionally of the hard to find kindness in humanity now a days. God bless them.
nuker110 4 months ago
I^m from Poland...well, In this freaky world i`m just greatful that my children are quite healthy!
Fregissima 4 months ago
He would like to be a doctor to help kids. This just made me cry.
kuozzi 4 months ago 49
yay it dindt affect portugal and spain!
mantijex 4 months ago
Omfg I shouldnt watch this...Of course I knew about Chernobyl,but when I saw these images and poor children,its a terrible fail of a human we cant imagine.
Reaper9987 4 months ago
holy shit! WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO THIS WORLD!
TheRockguy42 4 months ago
I am lil bit of dumnb but i dont know much about this whole thing and i wasn't even born when this happened but i am so churious, after the accident, how got those innocent kids get so bad, if they werent even there?;s like did they were on the treets and get something on them...but what with the babys...sorry for me being stupid...
Cindezorr 4 months ago
@Cindezorr My guess would be damage to their parents DNA.IT's terrible for sure and probably some of these children were in the womb when this all happened but why oh why would these women(and the men) decide to have children after being exposed like they were.I can't imagine that they didn't know the risks of what they might produce.
stnwllstv 4 months ago
Stupid humans... Playing around with things we barely understand.. We're still doing it now, spraying aluminium particles and barium salts into the atmosphere in an attempt to control the weather and god knows what else. The potential for the destruction of life could dwarf anything we've ever seen, including Chernobyl.. Don't believe me? Look up What in the World Are They Spraying..
source1zero 5 months ago 3
i saw comments about people felt so bad about what happened to these kids and that the people who did this will pay or that they hope they never see God..but what happened was a total accident, im not saying it couldnt have been prevented but it WAS an accident. it had to do with confusion about the reactors and the amount of water and steam they were puting into the machine
hugs4thethugs 5 months ago 2
I have not slept for three days from this video. these horrible images continuously flash in my mind. how could someone watch seven minute of these poor humans. I hope they are in peace. also I only could stand 2 images before I have to close my browser.
freecomptechreview 5 months ago
@freecomptechreview take some sleeping pills
XxJoe1792xX 5 months ago
From the World Health Organization":
"Given the low radiation doses received by most people exposed to the Chernobyl accident, no effects on fertility, numbers of stillbirths, adverse pregnancy outcomes or delivery complications have been demonstrated nor are there expected to be any. A modest but steady increase in reported congenital malformations in both contaminated and uncontaminated areas of Belarus appears related to improved reporting and not to radiation exposure."
ZombieLincoln666 5 months ago
@ZombieLincoln666 ...to the World Health Organization...you fuckers..."Bullshit!!!!!"
corinne2721 5 months ago
Im studying medicine... I watched this video... i got the chills at 2:25... May all of these innocent kids find peace... And to all of the destroyers of the world (All nations with no exceptions) I hope you will never see God before you for all of this that you have done... May all of the souls that have died in this tragedy Rest in Peace and the people still suffering be strong...
atreyufan012 5 months ago 23
@atreyufan012 The best thing you can do is become another Doctor Novick...best of luck to you.
HOLadd3 4 months ago 11
@atreyufan012 There is no God.
billybob7217 3 months ago
@billybob7217 there is to be honest..but here on earth we have a freedom of choice..did god build the reactor? or did some human been decide to build the reactor? our souls need to be with god..and these kids are all with god..in the after life they will sitting right by his side trying to help us here on earth make choices for the greater good. sorry u dont beleive, be good to yourself and others and one day you will meet him.
carademalo 3 months ago
it makes me sad thinking about the poor children and well everything radiation is a bad thing to mess with
AriesBlader232 5 months ago
I barely cry but dis is toucjing
2cute4uish 5 months ago
Watch 5:50 what the doctor said about his feelings of his role brought tears to my eyes.
happyfacejpg 5 months ago 2
I think the most graphic part was watching that poor mother :(
koolskater5 5 months ago
Being a doctor looks hard. :/ This has shaken my decisions.
MethsiaMae 5 months ago
2:00 I just when o-o the whole time..
GravityHotelTv 5 months ago
50,000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town......
Lajitt1 5 months ago
Nuclear energy is not as dangerous as you guys think it is. It is actually one of the safest forms of energy out there.
seshcrewproductions 5 months ago
@seshcrewproductions yep thats why that area is uninhabitable for 24k years and thousands of children within sevral hundred miles are still being born with defects of the radiation that still lingers
KornmanUNstoppable 5 months ago
Wow... a doctor who actually cares more about people than money.
nerblebun 5 months ago
is the nuclear plant still radioactive till today
ZinjeiSoDope 5 months ago
@ZinjeiSoDope Yes, they are trying to build a 'sarcophagus' of sorts to build over the open reactor, a place like that never looses its radioactivity. That is what they are going to try to do to the Fukushima reactors in Japan.
SephirothsQueen777 5 months ago
@ZinjeiSoDope Absolutely, positively!!! At the end of the video, they say that the plutonium has a half-life of over 24000 years, so we have 23,970 years before it is somewhat safe to live in the affected areas.... Makes ya wonder why they build these reactors huh? .... and what about the still highly radioactive "spent" rods that they bury???? It's just a bad deal for everyone but the electric companies.....
Landotter1 5 months ago
0:54 only 3% escaped but its 400% stronger then a atom bomb..? image what heppend if like 90% was released, it would kill hole europe...
bosaap10 6 months ago
when the little boy said that he wants to be a doctor , my tears just went down instantly... Human will is indeed a force to be recogned with... Even in this condition that boy has the right to dream and fight for something better It's always the same.... Our children suffer the aftermath of our own fuck ups... What did these children do to diserve such fate... Who are we to simply destroy their dreams.... My God how arrogant we are...
Hliouxas 6 months ago 22
@Hliouxas 1000 thumbs up to this comment!!!!
Landotter1 5 months ago
@Hliouxas i would put him out of his misery. not quick though slowly and painfully.
MrRussianterror 4 months ago
This is horrible, but it is NOTHING compared to chelyabinsk.
omnomnom85 6 months ago
It's videos like this that show us that there is always someone who has it worse than you. That kid who says he has to be carried to school still manages to generate a smile. I've seen alot of videos showing the bad side and the after effects of this disaster, but does anyone know what their government is doing about it, or has done about it in the past?
movieguy1985 6 months ago
@movieguy1985 The Ukrainian Government is keeping Pripyat off limits, though some people still live there, as they are unwilling to leave their original home. The steel sarcophagus that is around Reactor 4 is decaying and the government is trying to raise enough money to build a secondary one over the first one.
IBiteTheHandThatFed 6 months ago
Nuclear reactors aren't that bad guys the soviet Union likes to be quiet about stuff so they didnt tell anyone how dangerous or evacuate them. they turned off the cooling system and cranked up the speed on the reactors so get a little bit of an eduacation before you say nuclear energy is horrible and stupid
5FDPrebel 6 months ago
Omg...I couldn't stop crying watching these parents...This is so so horrible...
KittyLaBamBam 6 months ago 10
@KittyLaBamBam Yes, it's horrible...but also hopeful. Do something about it: make a donation to the ICHF (founded by Dr. William Novick, the dr at the end who meets the grateful parents).
HOLadd3 4 months ago
wow! so the town next to that Chernobyl Nuclear plant is now abandoned because of all the radiation? and what are those huge bulges on the children's backs in the very beginning of this video?
TheMostAwesomeMan242 6 months ago
@TheMostAwesomeMan242 A tumour..
Dreadnaughtos 6 months ago
Damn those kids scare me its just soo terrible
Lepryy 6 months ago
This is so incredibly sad, it's awful what happened. So awful.
By the way, I believe the music is actually "Prince Negaafellaga-Introduction."
RocketoftheFallen 6 months ago
Welcome to Communism and Socialized Medicine (Obamacare). Notice that it was the AMERICAN doctors who helped these poor children. Who will help when OUR doctors don't earn enough, or are advanced enough, to help? Wake up, America.
timetoregroup2008 6 months ago 2
If I were that doctor I would have started crying like a child because of the morther's gratitude.
hypoksifilia 6 months ago
im happy the doctor help those chernobyl children :D
VampireWeirdo1234 6 months ago
That's just depressing. Those children shouldn't suffer!!!!!
reidrules45 7 months ago
Is Japan going thru this with out the media hype? Studies on the fallout and only limited to a land locked area..what happens when its blown for miles and miles?
TheAMHaze 7 months ago
What's the name the song in the video ?? please
meli376 7 months ago
this is soo sad :'(
GirlNamedParamore09 7 months ago
T_T So sad really its not even funny
anthonyvaca 8 months ago
Heartbreaking and mind shaking to the core ! I recall Chernobyl well, a neighbor of ours who was pregnant down the street from us expected twins and sadly they died as they were born deformed... and we were far away respectively from where this happened and in a different country. Just horrific, the tragedy, the suffering. Mutated DNA that will be inherited down the generations, chromosomal damage.... human suffering....Japan's effects will be the same if not worse worldwide. Horrible !
TheBlissfulSpirit 8 months ago
Let me put something into perspective. They estimate about 100,000 people died from cancer relating to Chernobyl across the world. In the US ALONE, between 1995 and 2005 it has been estimated that 250,000 people died from cancers and other ailments related to coal fired power plants. This is only in the US. I am not giving nuclear power a blank check. I am only pointing out the irrational and misplaced fears. I am NOT excusing centralized power industry.
gukonni 8 months ago
The new disaster in japan is something like 30 times worse than this, if not more. Imagine what the future of that area will be like.
slickstrings 8 months ago
@slickstrings its not 30 times worse. In fact, Its not as bad. However, its potential to become more disastrous than chernobyl is still present, as the cores are still hot and are threatening a meltdown.
If all goes well, those reactors will cease production and the area will be fenced off until about 40 years later, when most of the radioactive stuff decays to less harmful stuff.
Poweryouup 8 months ago
And now it's just beginning in the U.S. because of Fukushima. And no one here is talking about it. Babies being born in the states are dying at a 50% increase. And we haven't seen anything yet. God or no God or be your own God. SOMEONE HAS TO STOP NUCLEAR POWER. Chernobyl is leaking and the plants in the U.S. are in need of repair real bad. They are leaking too.
laswan5 8 months ago
@laswan5 Yes! Inspection of these plants only shows they go "chernobyl after around 30 years! Then, they are surrounded with water...and the workers just Back Away...
funkateerkitty 7 months ago
the mankind is late 25 years for making clear planet ir reapats in 2011 at japan
im not sure when disaster was but if it was as 1986 we late 25 years
MUTERIST 8 months ago
0_0 2:18 poor kid
MrDanielj123 8 months ago
A perfect picture of futer earth... THANK YOU GEORGE BUSH!!! I cant wait for a post apocolyptic wasteland.
Cametheron 8 months ago
This is funny : A preliminary report by the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency has stated that the response to the Fukushima nuclear incident was "exemplary" and that nobody has been harmed by radiation exposure resulting from it.
The report was drafted by an IAEA fact-finding team which has just completed a visit to Japan. The team was led by Mike Weightman, the UK Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations – Britain's top nuclear regulator.
SuperNobama1 9 months ago
Japanese people do not know this facts. It is hidden by govt. and pro nuclear scientists and nuclear biz. People.
mizz1205 9 months ago
DIsasters like these are why I'm atheist.
whiteKIDSrule 9 months ago 2